External reviews
External reviews are not included in the AWS star rating for the product.
Mikrotik
What do you like best about the product?
Mikrotik brings the best networking quality/price products on the market
What do you dislike about the product?
Security issues as been common recently on the OS
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mikrotiks routers are not expensive and allow us to use them in many scenarios
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Keep the firmware up to date
- Leave a Comment |
- Mark review as helpful
MikroTik Review
What do you like best about the product?
MikroTik is a is a Latvian network equipment manufacturer. The company develops and sells wired and wireless network routers, network switches, access points, as well as operating systems and auxiliary software. They are very well prices for the SMB market and can be custom configured for many types of networking without the overhead of the larger players in the market.
What do you dislike about the product?
The downside is the initial navigation of the interface. Although the product(s) have a wealth of configuration possibilities, the learning curve can be high, particularly for a novice networking engineer. The best advice I could give would be to get your hands on whatever product you plan on implementing and start playing around with it in a lab. Get use to the interface, how to configure the basics, how to update the OS firmware and routerboard firmware, review each option and have a general understanding of what each function does.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Given out team is well versed with the switch and router product line for the SMB and mid size market, the benefits are clearly apparent to the client base in terms of budget and uptime. Rarely is there a time when a client is down with the implementation of MikroTik infrastructure.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The best advice I could give would be to get your hands on whatever product you plan on implementing and start playing around with it in a lab. Get use to the interface, how to configure the basics, how to update the OS firmware and routerboard firmware, review each option and have a general understanding of what each function does.
Best device in the networking
What do you like best about the product?
this is a best and easy device to handle the network.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is very costly but as compare to other device it is cheap.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use this device for auto swtching.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Mikrotik is one of the best device it is work as a router.
The best router for an IT admin
I have been using this mikrotik for all our networks with more than 300 systems. This is one of the best for routing, hotspot, vpn etc. it takes minimum resource and cut down your costs. If you know little programming, you can do wonders with this powerful router.
Mikrotik all in one
What do you like best about the product?
The best about Mikrotik is routeros system, that provide all of you will be need about networking, you have an router, switch, firewall and more in only one device. Also is an complete platform in all related to wireless networks and radio links,in the other hand the GUI provided by Winbox is very simply and easy to learn.
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes in sectorials wireless(ap) the clients loss the ip address and is needed an reboot to restore the functionality. Is complicated when we have not acces to mac-telnet to the device to offer support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Right now we are using mikrotik networks for manage all in an small ISP, users queue, firewall and ospf routing and all is working perfectly
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Mikrotik is a powerful brand to start an bussiness for some reasons, relation benefits and cost, easy management, scalability, all in one. When an bussiness is starting no need to spend money in an device for each function in the network. In the other hand mikrotik have an complete academy for learing about all related with the network.
mikro tik is network monitoring device
What do you like best about the product?
mikro tik is best monitoring device,it is layer 3 device and mostly user monitoring regarding,suppose any user facing connectivity issue this time mikro tik through showing actually issue,many time user connected showing our side but user told i am not getting proper connectivity,this time issue has been find out ,this time user facing browsing issue,after follow the troubleshoot process,above all things micro tik is the best monitoring device
What do you dislike about the product?
mikro tik only suggestion for troubleshooting regarding,sometimes mikro tik through not has been refresh the proper account ,many times account is stuck.the configuration page for mikro tik is very complicated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
multiple issue solving mikro tik device through,suppose any one user facing speed issue ,so mikro tik through open specific user account details and check details in speed regarding after take a decision for troubleshoot regarding.main benefit of mikro tik is easy to find out specific user account details,this is best benefit of mikro tik .
Recommendations to others considering the product:
this device fills with current need and has very good wifi and will support an optical connection in the future
MIkrotik L3 system helps to grow Network
What do you like best about the product?
layer 3 device which works as a router help to connect the client and grow up the Network. With the help Of Winbox graphical interface we can configured and make changes in the configuration. easy to implement and understandings of routing and terminology of network protocols gives better way to reliable network. lots of options are available. troubleshooting traffic analysis bandwidth monitoring is more effortless.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to update firmware. some bugs are not fixed yet. takes time to disconnect the user or sometimes shows connected where user is not even accessible to services. understanding of terminal logs are difficult need different interactive layer application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Basic thing which we are checking at first is whether user is connected or not. Monitoring users logs. torching IP request assigning a IP's to users with Natting function. configuring firewall settings with Winbox interface. taking live updates of bandwidth utilization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
need to learn lots of things before implementing it. Be aware of All protocol functioning then its easy to troubleshoot issues.
Network Layer Device.
What do you like best about the product?
Mikrotik is a system which work very well as a router which can be handle through a graphical interface. This graphic interface is build by Winbox. can configured everything which makes secured and provide services so we can grow up with more clients and network. Implementation of every protocols is easy. filtering of packets with help of firewall NAT functioning makes network more efficient.
What do you dislike about the product?
Using Winbox as GUI most of the options are little bit difficult to understand as if u don't know about the basic understanding of network protocols. Sometimes users are disconnected, but on Mikrotik it shows connected, need administrator access for that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a ISP we are connected to our clients through Mikrotik where we can grow our network. easily add-up new line. monitoring of clients bandwidth and speed consistency. checking utilization of memory and cpu.
handling every function related to network with the help of Winbox.
handling every function related to network with the help of Winbox.
Mikrotik CHR as a secure router to connect remote sites and to get around Mobile B/band Telco CGNAT
I have been running a Mikrotik CHR for 6 weeks as a theory of concept so that I can locate and access a remote site (farm) for monitoring of security cameras and remote Amateur Radio site. The AWS VPC and the CHR instance works exactly as they intend to.
In Australia the telcos providing mobile phone services primarily use CGNAT (Carrier Grade Network Address Translation). This is good for normal users as it helps to keep them safe from port scanning etc. However the downside is that there is no way of finding the end node as it doesn't have a real external IP Address. Unfortunately DDNS isn't a solution either.
The only way in Australia to obtain a 'real' IP Address is to be a registered company and that also comes at an additional cost to have one applied to your 3g/4g SIM. For me this wasn't an option.
My solution works exceptionally well and that the end nodes will always automatically established a L2TP secure tunnel to the CHR and then routing (in this case RIP) does the rest. So in effect the remote site/s make an automatic connection to the Mikrotik CHR and you establish a connection from your own location. Then you have full remote access functionality.
Can't recommend it enough.
Likely Used For Monitoring And Troubleshooting
What do you like best about the product?
First Of All, the Addresses!! Easiest way to input address of every particular zone our ISP has given, we basically look after every user for a particular instance whoever is facing issues in connectivity, its easy to check the speed how much user is getting on uploads and downloads. it shows every user who is connected and who is facing issues in speed. Graphs that show on PPP section allows to monitor the speed of every user. You can ping a server which shows every data about how much packets are being transferred and how much there is packet loss.
What do you dislike about the product?
No Cons Till now, Just a suggestion That sometimes when you try to disconnect a user for troubleshooting problems at that time it takes too much time to get disconnected.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
On Mikrotik we basically monitor user's data, according to the particular IP which is allocated for a particular zone, we monitor user's speed , user's activeness up time, a zone which is facing problem we troubleshoot it on this application itself.
showing 11 - 20